The Girlfriend Experience

'Chelsea is a high-priced call girl in Manhattan, offering a girlfriend experience: she\'ll dress with the client in mind, go to dinner and a movie, listen attentively to talk about work and finances, and she\'ll provide sex. It\'s October, 2008: a presidential election nears and the economy is in free fall. She has a boyfriend, Chris, who\'s a personal trainer. She\'s working on her Web page, talking to image consultants, being interviewed by a reporter. She asks clients when their birthdays are and uses that for an astrological prediction. She\'s drawn to a new client, a writer from L.A. Should she break her rules for him? What if it risks her relationship with Chris? Should she invest in gold?'

The Girlfriend Experience is a 2009 experimental drama film shot in New York City. It is directed by Steven Soderbergh and stars adult film actress Sasha Grey. A rough cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. The film has also been made available on Amazon Video on Demand as a pre-theatrical rental. Soderbergh mentioned Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers as influences. The film is also notable because it was produced for 1.3 million dollars and was shot with a relatively inexpensive RedOne camera.

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